prescreen
verb
pre·screen
ˌprē-ˈskrēn
variants
or pre-screen
prescreened or pre-screened; prescreening or pre-screening
1
: to screen (someone or something) in a preliminary way
prescreen job applicants
… a prescreened and carefully selected audience …—Noemie Emery
A computer could prescreen mammograms, and then radiologists would view only those images that contain suspicious signs.—Karen F. Schmidt
2
: to show a preliminary screening of (something, such as a film)
… of those 10 movies, more than half weren't pre-screened for the critics.—Richard Freedman
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